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Public Passes on New Deal

Stop the presses! Public prefers free market to Beltway.

Updated Oct. 7, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

Perhaps you've read -- several hundred times by now -- that the financial panic means we are returning to a new day of expanding government. Well, maybe not, if the American people are consulted. A new survey by the Kauffman Foundation describes a country that is worried about the impact of the financial turmoil on their lives, but is equally worried about what government might do to fix it.

For example, the survey asked, "What poses the greatest threat to your own economic situation?" The runaway winner was "higher...